Turkey’s Interior Ministry has a Women’s Emergency Support (KADES) application that serves in 6 languages. Guess which language is not there.

A sum of “Turkey’s Kurdish problem”

Women’s Emergency Support App has 6 language options, but not Kurdish

HDP MP Kılıç Koçyiğit has asked why the Interior Ministry’s Women’s Emergency Support (KADES) application does not have the Kurdish option while it is now offering services in Turkish, Persian, Arabic, English, Russian and French.

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